By LEVI PULKKINEN, SEATTLEPI.COM STAFF

Updated 10:00 pm, Sunday, August 9, 2009

Voyeurism charges have been filed against a Covington father on allegations that a 13-year-old girl changing clothes at his home found she was being videotaped.

In April, King County sheriff's deputies were called to the home of Donald S. Hayes, 54, after a girl who'd been swimming there with a friend allegedly found a video camera set to record in a room where she was changing, prosecutors say in court documents.

According to a police statement, the girl told detectives she was inside changing out of a borrowed swimsuit when she noticed a blinking red light on a video camera positioned on a desk in the room. Approaching the camera, the girl found it was recording her as she changed.

Concerned, the girl reported the camera to another adult in the home, police say. She then handed the camera over to a friend's father, who, police say, removed the disk over Hayes' objections.

Interviewed at the Norm Maleng Regional Justice Center days later, Hayes initially said he'd accidentally pressed the camera's record button, according to prosecutors. Hayes then agreed to take a polygraph test; his answers, according to police, showed "extreme deception."

Confronted with the results, Detective Casey Johnson said in court documents, Hayes admitted to videotaping the girl.

"(Hayes) said that he was not sure what he was going to get or which girl was to be in that room," Johnson said in court documents. "He said it was stupid of him to do that. He said he never had thoughts like this before."

Hayes has been charged with voyeurism, a felony sex offense. He has not been jailed in the case.